Or, smell it?
Either way, Texas A&M athletic director Bill Byrne made a stink (yeah, we know; last time, I promise) over the weekend about the school’s buses being vandalized with what Byrne said to be excrement and spray paint.
“Someone vandalized our buses in Lubbock. Excrement inside and outside of buses plus spray painted vulgarities on outside. Classy,” Byrne tweeted.
Texas Tech responded earlier this week with an investigation into the matter. The school stated that they had found “the buses were not spray painted. Instead, washable shoe polish was used on the windows of one of the buses; No feces were found either in or on the buses. Fish bait was dropped onto the floor of one of the buses; The alleged ‘vandalism’ was cleaned by the bus drivers and Holiday Inn staff before it was seen by the A&M official who tweeted the information.”
But in his weekly blog released today, Byrne noted — way down at the bottom, mind you — that he stood by what he tweeted over the weekend.
Finally, I don’t feel the need to defend my comments about the incident in Lubbock because whatever was thrown on that bus sure stunk and I know vandalism when I see it. I took personal offense just as I would have if someone did this to my own car. This was a first in my 28 years as an Athletic Director … and hopefully a last.
Byrne also noted that he was disappointed in Tech fans booing injured Aggies.
“Apparently, they felt the injuries were faked in an attempt to slow the game down,” Byrne said. “I was in the locker room after we won the game and can attest to the separated shoulder, dislocated elbow, knee injuries, and concussion suffered by members of our team.”
Byrne did give high marks to the Texas Tech media relations staff, but it appeared his overall experience in Lubbock left a bad, perhaps fishy, taste in his mouth — until the Aggies strolled out of Lubbock on their buses with a 45-40 victory, of course.
